A study of hate speech on Twitter in the week surrounding President Barack Obama’s reelection this week concluded that most of the racist rhetoric against Obama emanated from southern states,The Atlantic reported Friday.

In a blog post earlier this week, Matthew Zook, co-founder of the geo-coded data research group Floating Sheep, said an analysis of 395 racist tweets mentioning Obama from November 1-7 were most concentrated in Alabama and Mississippi.

“These findings support the idea that there are some fairly strong clustering of hate tweets centered in [the] southeastern U.S. which has a much higher rate than the national average,” Zook said.